Carla Gugino gets to work with Zack Snyder as he directs Sucker Punch, an action fantasy for Warner Bros. and 
Legendary Pictures. You might be familiar with Gugino’s work in Snyder’s Watchmen where she portrays 1950s version of Silk Spectre.
Gugino joins a fine cast of actors Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Jamie Chung, Jena Malone, and Abbie Cornish. They all star in the 1950s-set tale of a girl (Browning) confined to a mental institution by her evil stepfather, who intends to have her lobotomized in five days. She and her friends enter an alternate reality where they begin planning an escape. Wow!
Gugino is playing Mrs. Schultz, an adult figure in the institution.
Snyder also wrote the script and is producing with his Cruel & Unusual Films partner, wife Deborah Snyder.
Sounds like the actors are getting serious for a pretty heroic adventure because they are currently in fight training. After the cast completes their fight training, shooting will begin this fall in Vancouver.
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Posted on Feb 22, 2009 under Action, Actors, Adventure, Book-to-Movie, Box Office, Fantasy, Movies, Online Videos, Reviews, Sci-Fi, behind the scenes |
We’re coming down to the wire with the Watchmen video journal series, and today’s installment is all about the ladies of Watchmen, most notably the Silk Specters, both mother and daughter.
The really interesting part about the whole thing is Carla Gugino, who plays Sally Jupiter, is about the same age as Malin Ackerman, who plays Laurie Juspeczyk, Sally Jupiter’s daughter. It takes more than a little solid acting, that Carla sure looks like she’s providing, and some solid makeup work, which also looks to be in evidence.
For those of you who are wondering why mother and daughter don’t share a last name, let me spare you the trip to Wikipedia that I already took–turns out that, back in Sally’s day, Polish names weren’t looked on with favor, so she changed it just slightly to spare herself a lot of trouble. Mother and daughter have plenty of issues that you’ll see throughout the film, and that lends an extra note of humanity to a film so deeply involved with superheroism. This is, as far as I’m concerned, a very upbeat note that gives a film already looked forward to that extra something that makes waiting for March very, very difficult.
Variety reports that Carla Gugino is joining the drama Every Day. She joins Liev Schreiber and Helent Hunt who play a married couple going through tough times, with him plodding along as the unsatisfied writer of a semi-pornographic TV show.
Gugino is set to play a sexy colleague who proposes to him, creating a crisis that strains his marriage to the breaking point.
The script was penned by Richard Levine, who also makes his directing debut on this film. Shooting begins in New York this month.